What a nightmare.

Anyone who has played around with form files, will quickly realise that our racing industry standards are a complete nightmare with no logical structure whatsoever.

Jockeys confused with jockeys
Race types and grades different between States and even different within the same State.
Track codes with no consistency for codes nor abbreviations.

It really is about time that someone took the bull by the horns to make race form decipherable.

The race clubs can please themselves, as can the data providers, it seems that there is a culture of "just get the form out there, bugs and all".

Since when can one track have three or four different codes, international tracks such as York in England have at least 5 alternate codes.

It's well before time that decent standards, were adapted to properly inform the punter.

I have no problem with different handicap conditions for different States, but those handicap conditions should be adapted to a National code.

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